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Klein was silent for a moment; the amount of information contained in Leyton's words was a bit overwhelming.
Whether it was the Seven Lights of the Spirit World or a completely new system, he needed to properly digest it.
After a brief silence, Klein's finger, which had been tapping the table, stopped, and he turned his gaze back to Leyton, asking,
"What does the Hidden Sage want to obtain?"
"Some help.
In the not-too-distant future, there will inevitably be a life-and-death struggle between him and Steam."
"And, if he wins the struggle against Steam, he will also need your blessing.
He needs to go to a sealed place."
Leyton explained where the Fool's help would be needed in the future, if things truly progressed to that point.
Klein fell silent again; the other party's words were a bit frightening.
Some help could be interpreted as participating in a War of the Gods, and he had only recently been promoted to Sequence 8.
Klein neither wanted to agree nor wanted to expose the fact that his Sequence was far from sufficient.
"If at that time I have returned to the position of the great master above the Spirit World, then it is possible."
Klein's answer did not close off the possibility.
"Of course!"
Leyton nodded in response.
Klein had intended to ask the other party some questions, but he felt that his spirituality was not enough to support staying on the Gray Fog for too long.
He had no choice but to change the subject and end the conversation as quickly as possible:
"Heh! You should have noticed that there are others who will arrive here.
I respond to their requests and will periodically hold a gathering here.
If you are interested, as his spokesperson, you can also participate."
Since a verbal agreement had been reached with the other party, Klein didn't mind bringing him into the Tarot Club.
This would also allow him to obtain more information or knowledge from the other party through Miss Justice and the others, while also expanding the Tarot Club's channels.
"My pleasure!"
Leyton bowed again; this was the development he most hoped for.
Klein's figure, shrouded in the Gray Fog, gently raised his hand, and a deck of Tarot cards appeared before Leyton.
"They use Tarot cards as their codenames.
You can also choose one from them as your codename."
"The cards that are already taken have been removed by me."
Leyton looked at the Tarot cards before him, somewhat undecided.
He wanted to choose the Hermit, which corresponded to his Pathway, but the Hermit was what his captain would choose later.
The remaining ones were the Temperance card, which he preferred, and the White Tower card, which corresponded to the Reader Pathway.
The main reason for his hesitation was that the White Tower card, whether upright or reversed, had rather inauspicious meanings.
Klein watched Leyton's struggling expression with a bit of anxiety; if the other party continued to hesitate, his own spirituality would become unstable.
"White Tower then!
I have quite a connection with Knowledge."
Leyton made his choice before Klein's spirituality became unstable.
"Alright!"
Klein's body, shrouded in the Gray Fog, breathed a sigh of relief.
If the other party had hesitated any longer, he wouldn't have been able to hold on.
The Tarot cards floating in mid-air disappeared, and the Fool, entirely shrouded in the Gray Fog, spoke again:
"Every Monday, at three in the afternoon."
After saying this, he expelled Leyton from the Gray Fog space.
"Phew~ That was close; I almost couldn't hold on."
Klein breathed a sigh of relief.
Immediately, his figure also disappeared from the Gray Fog space, returning to Raphael graveyard.
Back in the real world, Klein returned to Dunn's grave.
Looking at the photo and inscription on the tombstone, he sighed deeply, drew a crimson moon on his chest, and then turned and left the graveyard.
On Minsk Street in Backlund, Leyton, who had finished his conversation with Klein in the study, looked at his surroundings, which had returned to normal.
"Why does it feel a bit rushed?
Klein should have had many more questions to ask me."
Leyton pondered in confusion for a moment.
Then he thought of a possibility:
"He had already been on the Gray Fog for a while before pulling me up, so his spirituality was somewhat unstable?"
"If I had hesitated a bit longer, would Mr. Fool and I have fallen out of the Gray Fog space together?!"
Leyton felt that the truth of the matter was probably as he had imagined, and he couldn't help but feel a little amused.
"Our Mr. Fool has a long and arduous journey ahead!"
Leyton sighed on Klein's behalf.
Soon, he thought of himself; Klein was at least the inheritor of Sefirah Castle, while he was completely a tool of the Knowledge Moor.
"In a sense, I should have an even longer and more arduous journey, but I can choose to slack off.
I don't have too strong a sense of responsibility or belonging, but Klein is different."
"Klein will also be coming to Backlund soon.
I need to quickly digest the potion, not just to keep up with Klein's progress later on, but also to resolve my own hidden dangers."
After deciding on his next goal, Leyton prepared to find the Hidden Sage to give his newly acquired Crow Anu a knowledge infusion.
It still hadn't fully learned to speak and could only repeatedly parrot what others said, almost driving Bugs Bunny to a nervous breakdown.
Leyton was too lazy to even set up a ritual and directly began to chant the Hidden Sage's honorific name:
"Sage who observes the world, eye that peers into truth, embodiment of endless knowledge and numerology!"
"I pray to you: I pray for you to bestow some knowledge upon my crow…"
The prayer to the Hidden Sage was quickly completed, but Leyton received no response; it seemed the Hidden Sage didn't bother with him.
Leyton prepared to find materials to pray to the Hidden Sage again.
Suddenly, his spiritual intuition was triggered, and Leyton turned to look in the direction of the living room downstairs.
Purple phosphorescence flowed in his eyes, and his gaze penetrated the floor beneath his feet, seeing Bugs Bunny and Crow Anu in the living room downstairs.
Leyton saw a stream of information rushing like a flood in the Spirit World, and the next moment, it covered the Spirit World area corresponding to where the crow was standing.
The information flood surged past without stopping, and the crow, which had been flapping its wings in the air, directly fell to the ground.
The entire crow lay twitching on the ground, looking as if it was only a step away from foaming at the mouth due to toxic shock.
Bugs Bunny, who had been staring at the crow from the side, was startled by this sudden scene.
He cautiously walked forward, extended a paw, and touched the fallen crow.
Seeing that the other party indeed did not react to his touch, his expression instantly changed, and he directly kicked the crow hard.
He continued to kick and pat, tormenting the crow for a while before finally stopping, still seemingly unsatisfied.
Leyton's eyebrows twitched as he watched, completely unable to imagine what had transpired between the crow and the rabbit at home during his absence over the past few days.
Withdrawing his gaze from downstairs, Leyton hesitated whether or not to go down and interrupt the harmonious friendship between his rabbit and crow.
"Boss, boss! This isn't good, Anu suddenly fell down and isn't moving!"
Soon, Bugs Bunny hopped up and shouted.
Leyton glanced at the rabbit, who was feigning an anxious expression, and did not expose its opportunistic retaliation against Crow Anu just now.
"Let's go see."
Saying that, he walked downstairs.
By the time Bugs Bunny and Leyton reached downstairs, Crow Anu was no longer lying on the ground twitching.
"It looks like there's no problem now.
Can you speak normally now?"
Leyton squatted down and asked curiously.
"Caw~ I can!"
The crow's voice was a bit weak.
Leyton nodded:
"It seems the effect is very obvious!
Just rest a bit and sort out the knowledge in your mind, and you'll be fine."
"Boss, was it also infused with knowledge?"
Bugs Bunny asked cautiously from the side.
While speaking, he didn't forget to look around, seemingly worried that the Hidden Sage, who liked to infuse others with knowledge, hadn't left yet.
"Yes, it lacked corresponding common sense before and couldn't even speak, only knowing how to repeat others' words like a parrot."
Leyton nodded.
"Caw! I, I can speak now, no…no need for knowledge infusion."
After hearing the conversation between Leyton and Bugs Bunny, the crow understood what had happened to it just now.
Frightened, it immediately flapped up from the ground, its speech becoming stuttered.
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